Corpsmembers of the Month: May

We’re back again with our new Corpsmember of the Month Awards for May! Each community meeting we select a Corpsmember from each crew who demonstrated outstanding work over the last month. Our Corpsmembers of the Month are: Rueben, Energy Crew Kamen, Water Crew Matthew, ACLC Deondre, YouthBuild These four Corpsmembers continue to work hard and [...]

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Summer Crews Announced!

Summer is just around the corner and our new crews are amped and ready to go! We’ve got a little info on what you can expect from our crews during their Summer of Service! This season, we are going to have four amazing crews out of our Denver office: The Trail Blazers are a sawyer crew that [...]

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Leadership Council Elections

At the beginning of each term, we give Corpsmembers the opportunity to nominate and elect their peers to MHYC’s Leadership Council. This is a group made up entirely of Corpsmembers to act as a liaison between staff members and the crews. Leadership Council works to implement policy changes, host and coordinate events like Career Day and our Halloween party [...]

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Alumni Spotlight: David Cumming

Mile High Youth Corps is beginning a new series on our blog devoted to featuring our alumni.  Today, we invite you to learn about David Cumming, an alumni from our 2011 ACLC program.   We asked David a few questions about his ACLC term and life after AmeriCorps.  Here is what he had to share: [...]

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Corpsmembers of the Month

Every month at our Community Meeting, we recognize one Corpsmember from each crew as Corpsmember of the Month. The winners of this award are chosen by their own crews as someone who has exhibited hard work and dedication, promoted a positive Corps culture and has gone above and beyond during the last month. By giving this [...]

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Looking for a Paid, Unique Leadership Experience? Become an ACLC!

Mile High Youth Corps is full of diverse job opportunities in order for it to run smoothly as a growing nonprofit. MHYC requires folks who can work in management, finance, program development, employee recruitment, marketing, direct conservation service and more. One program exists to blend the direct service with the operations of a nonprofit: the [...]

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Reflections on MHYC: A New Perspective

One of our newest Corpsmembers, Jackie Wolfe, joined Energy Crew in January. We recently asked her what she thought about MHYC so far and this is what she had to say: This first month of our term has gone by quite quickly, actually. The first two weeks of orientation seemed slow, but once we made [...]

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Corpsmember Spotlight

Our spring term is well underway and our new crews are hitting the ground running to conserve water and energy around Colorado. We have 14 new ACLCs, 7 new Energy Corpsmembers, 2 new Water Corpsmembers and we are thrilled to have all of them on board. We recently put together a video introducing a few [...]

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Service Project: The Urban Farm

Last Friday, all the MHYC CMs headed to The Urban Farm for an All-CORPS SERVICE PROJECT. Our new Energy and Water CMS joined the Summer of Service Crews and some staff to spend the morning working at The Urban Farm. The sky was blue, the sun was out and so were everyone’s smiles. It looked [...]

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Composting Comes To MHYC!

The ACLC program involves many components. One of these components is the capstone project we work on throughout the year. The group I am involved with, Adriana Lopez, Allison Boese and myself decided to bring composting to MHYC. We began back in March and have been working hard to get this program off the ground. [...]

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